Budots, a genre of deliberately tacky dance music from the slums of the Philippines, is shaped by the noise, joy and violence of the streets. Take a listen.

A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of “disastrous” flooding, a risk that is set to grow as warming spurs more intense rainfall around the world.

A slum is a residential area that completely lacks basic amenities needed for human survival like sanitation, potable water, electricity etc. As more cities adapt to urbanisation, one of the ...

As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to carve out a place in the cities of ...

In 2018, Belize had an urban population of 174,000. In the country, only 6,000 people lived in slums, which is the second-lowest absolute slum population in the world.

In the first quarter of 2025 alone, Kibera residents delivered two tonnes of recyclable plastics. Read more at ...

Study reveals high flood exposure risk for slum dwellers in Global South, urging equitable flood adaptation strategies.

Yet this 45-storey skyscraper in the center of Venezuela's capital Caracas is no five-star hotel or swanky apartment block: it is a slum, probably the tallest in the world.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A police officer was slain while on foot patrol in Brazil's largest slum, military police said Friday.

AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) - Habitat for Humanity has built a Third World slum in its own back yard as a sort of theme park of poverty that it hopes will motivate visitors to contribute to efforts to ...

Percentage of Urban Population living in Slums (2016): 94% South Sudan is currently home to the world’s largest slum population, with 94% of its urban population living in slum-like dwellings.